THIS is WTF I'm talking about.

I do not say that Russia will lose the war. That is simply impossible. But these are bullshit excuses. The Russians were smashed in the Kharkov area because of strategic mistakes and failures of the Russian Army General Staff.
their stupidity is beyond imagination and excuse. And thousands of innocent people will die because of it.

Not only have they been shamefully defeated, their idiocy continues - They have moved the 15,000 man 3rd Corps from Donetsk to Izium, which leaves Donetsk almost defenseless. If ukrops now advance on Donetsk, even get a small foothold inside the city, it will be a blunder of strategic proportions.

I am in Donetsk. I got back from Moscow yesterday. There is a serious shortage of motor fuel (propane and gasoline) and drinking water in the city. Ukrop shelling is heavy and continuous. Our home is in Petrovsky District, less than 10 Km from the front lines in Mari'inka. We have been staying for the last few months in a friend's apartment in the city center, about 20 Km from the ukrop frontline positions, about an hour's drive by tank. I do not think they can make it to the city center, but taking Donetsk is the ukrop's main strategic objective, and even if they get a small foothold inside the city, they will have tens of thousands of civilian human shields and can create another Mariupol scenario.

The question is not whether Russia will liberate Ukraine, that is a given, the question is how many soldiers and civilians will have to pay with their lives in the process for the fuckups of the General Staff. It looks now like the answer will be "Too many."

Я не говорю, что Россия проиграет войну. Это просто невозможно. Но это бредовые отговорки. Русские были разбиты в районе Харькова из-за стратегических ошибок и неудач Генерального штаба русской армии. Их глупость за гранью воображения и оправдания. И из-за этого погибнут тысячи невинных людей.

Мало того, что они потерпели позорное поражение, их идиотизм продолжается - они перебросили 15-тысячный 3-й корпус из Донецка в Изюм, оставив Донецк практически беззащитным. Если укропы сейчас наступят на Донецк, пусть даже небольшой плацдарм внутри города, это будет грубая ошибка стратегического масштаба.

Я в Донецке. Вчера вернулся из Москвы. В городе остро ощущается нехватка моторного топлива (пропан и бензин) и питьевой воды. Обстрел Укропа сильный и непрерывный. Наш дом находится в Петровском районе, менее чем в 10 км от линии фронта в Марьинке. Последние несколько месяцев живем в квартире у друга в центре города, примерно в 20 км от передовых позиций укропов, примерно в часе езды на танке. Не думаю, что они смогут пробиться в центр города, но взять Донецк - главная стратегическая задача укропа, и даже если они закрепятся внутри города, то у них будут десятки тысяч гражданских живых щитов, и они смогут создать еще один Мариуполь сценарий.

Вопрос не в том, освободит ли Россия Украину, это данность, вопрос в том, сколько солдат и мирных жителей заплатят при этом своими жизнями за долбоебов Генштаба. Теперь похоже, что ответ будет "Слишком много".

#YURI Here we give you quite bitter and sarcastic comment of Yury Podolyaka:

It turns out that it was not a defeat at Kharkov, but a "cunning plan”?

“The official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the situation in the Kharkiv direction: “In order to achieve the objectives of the SMO, it was decided to regroup troops in the areas of Balakleya and Izyum to increase efforts in the Donetsk direction. Within three days, an operation was carried out to curtail and transfer the Izyumsko-Balakleya group of troops to the territory of the DPR.

A number of distracting and demonstration events were held with the designation of the actual actions of the troops. In order to prevent damage to the troops of the Russian Federation, powerful air, artillery and missile strikes were inflicted on the enemy.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than two thousand Ukrainian and foreign fighters, as well as over 100 armored vehicles and artillery pieces in three days.

#YURI comment. Smart people told me yesterday, Yur, that you are spreading panic, this is not a defeat, this is all a very cunning plan. And I didn't believe, and in vain.

That is, if I understand what has been said correctly, and I can't HELP BUT BELIEVE the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, right? It turns out that everything that happened from September 7 to September 10 was just a very cunning plan to withdraw the Russian army from Balakleya, Izyum and Kupyansk. It is a pity that hundreds of thousands of people who trusted us were not informed about this plan, and the Kharkov Administration, apparently was also not privy to the details of this plan, and therefore it had to escape last night from Kupyansk, as they say “with only pants they wore”, and the Russian army, as I understand it, in full accordance with the plan, left a large amount of fuel and munitions, which is now taken over (as I should understand) in accordance with the same plan, the APU uses for its intended purpose against us”.

Did I miss anything? Did I understand everything correctly in Konashenkov's message?

But in 1942, the Sovinformburo was more honest (from June 25, 1942): "June 25, in the Kharkov direction, our troops fought the advancing enemy troops. After hard fighting, our units left Kupyansk."

PS By the way, if I were the MoD of the Russia, I would have already started preparing a speech for Gen. Konashenkov about the plan of the abandonment of the north-eastern parts of the Kharkov region (it will have to be done soon).

PP.S. And the residents of Kherson asked me very much that when the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation begins to put into effect a plan for the planned withdrawal of its troops from Kherson to Donbass (naturally "to achieve its goals"), let the Ministry of Defense take the trouble of warning them about it, well, at least a couple of days in advance. That's all I can say about the official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation regarding the situation in the Kharkov direction.

Well, brothers and sisters. Are you depressed? Shouted? Have a fight? Lost in spirit?
I get it, I agree, it's been a tough day. Very difficult, and go, not the last. And I also read your letters.

But now it has probably become clearer, clearer to you, what it was like for our grandfathers and grandmothers in the Great Patriotic War. What they felt, what they experienced. How they suffered. What was it like then to live, fight, believe in victory, against all odds.

How many days have they had like today? For four years of war? That's it.

Everything has ever been. What one person can overcome, another can overcome. And we are capable. It will be difficult, I already wrote this today. Very difficult in places. But we don't really have a choice.

More precisely, it is simple: either give up or fight. And this is not only the choice of the country, politicians. This is a personal choice for each of us.

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Ukraine Announces ‘Filtration’ of Citizens

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) announced that it had begun conducting a “filtration” of civilians in Balakleya, the town in Kharkov Region reportedly taken by forces of the Kiev government.

“The purpose of the measures is to prevent the subversive activities of the Russians and their allies,” the SBI saidon social media. “The time of reckoning has come.”

Ukraine had charged the town’s mayor with treason in April, accusing him of collaborating with Russian troops and helping them distribute humanitarian aid. 

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Life in Donetsk...

A market in Donetsk was shelled today. Look at the reaction of the two men on the far left. The just walk around the rubble and continue their conversation, as if nothing happened. Donetsk people have balls of steel. Or maybe they are just used to being shelled. Or both.

By @vrogov:

They are at war with us, and we are conducting NWO.

We are blown up and shot, but we do not hit the GUR and the SBU.

The enemy is at the gates, and here "everything is going according to plan" ... According to NATO's plan!

It's time to end this approach. Otherwise, we will be crushed and destroyed.

The enemy makes no distinction between the liberated territories and the rest of Russia. In the global confrontation, the weak are beaten and finished off. This is an existential war. Both for the West and for us.

The time for half-measures has passed. It's time to fight in earnest.

I hope they hear us.

Vladimir Rogov

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Reports of ukrops taking Donetsk airport are pure bullshit. Maybe I will go there myself tomorrow...

@Boris_Rozhin (ColonelCassad) reports:

1—There are reports from the field that the enemy continues to amass infantry (including foreign mercenaries) and equipment near Ugledar. It is possible that in the next 24 hours or later it will launch an offensive near Pavlovka, Yegorovka and Nikolskyy.

2—In the next week, in addition to developing and consolidating the success of the breakthrough at Balakleya, the enemy is likely to try to take to other directions—Kherson and Krivoy Rog, Ugledar and possibly Artemivsk—on an emotional high, counting on the loss of our spirits.

3—The Nazis report that they have seized Balakleya's interim police officer, as well as several teachers in Kupiansk and Balakleya.

4—Wagner PMC and the 3rd Brigade of the DNR army tonight took the town of Majorskoye near Gorlovka.

Finally video proof that the Ukrainian claims of advancement in the area of the Donetsk airport are fake.

"Can I ask of all the spots alone the long front, which is the best to be given up to make a cauldron? Is there a better place?"


There is NO "best" or even good spot for Russia to retreat from. EVERY Russian retreat is a giant fuckup that costs and wastes countless lives of good soldiers and innocent civilians. Remember the civilians in Bucha who were murdered by ukrops for simply having Russian food? Anyone who supported or cooperated with Russians is marked for death or worse as soon as ukrop nazis return. Genocide. EVERY Russian retreat is a failure and a mark of shame on Russia and the Russian Army Command.

Pincer movements can also be created by advancing on two sides, cauldrons can be created by Russian troops coming up from behind, as is possible and has been talked about in reference to Avdeevka and Mari'inka for months now, but still has not been accomplished. Another fuckin' failure.

We, the people of Donbass, are grateful for Russia's support. We would not have survived without it. But it cannot ever be forgotten that it was the people and soldiers of Donbass who have held the line against ukrop and NATO nazis for the last 8 years. Who defends Donbass defends Russia. Yes, Russia's intervention in February disrupted a major ukrop nazi attack that would have meant a real genocide for the people of Donbass, but the fact is that the nazis also planned to go further, into Taganrog and Rostov. Russia's intervention prevented this, but it was Donbass courage and blood that had prevented it for the 8 years before that. As I have said since I got here in 2015, "As goes Donbass, so goes the world", and that world certainly includes Russia. The Vostok Battalion motto is "Only forward, not one step back". The Russian General Staff should take a lesson from that.

☢️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 Well, this morning the last working power unit at #Zaporozhye NPP was shut down ☢️

Why did this happen? Because the Ukrainian Armed Forces have hit the nuclear power plant to no end. Yes, actually, if only on it. Infrastructure objects, especially power engineering, are perhaps the main target for the Ukrainian military. They hit the thermal power plant in #Donetsk and #Luhansk. They are destroying power lines.
Energy facilities are a target for Ukrainian saboteurs, and not just in the republics. #Belgorod recently.

I have one very, perhaps strange, and even trivial question: how long are we just going to look at this and not respond? Is there no thermal power plant in Ukraine? Power transmission lines? Sub-stations? Well, everything else. And yes, a nuclear power plant. Don't they have any? Or doesn't anyone know where they are? Any chance of a clue?

Well it's just that our non-response, the failure to fly the Calibre into such facilities, looks, let me put it neatly, very strange.

Maybe now is the time, at least?

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ALEXANDER KHODAKOVSKY, BEST COMMANDER IN THE DRP OR RUSSIAN ARMY, SPEAKS. LISTEN. THINK. SHARE.

Aleksandr Khodakovsky (@Aleksandr_Skif) writes from the front:

Information about indications of preparations for an offensive in the Kharkiv direction came from various sources—this was not a surprise. How it was assessed, how the recepients reacted to it, how they managed to prepare and whether they were preparing is another question.

But my observations say that no effective system of reaction has developed, such that when on receiving signals some rollers start to spin, triggering everything into motion and bringing the resource, whatever it is, to maximum readiness.

Russian troops are fighting on the front, the LDNR corps, which are subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Defence and are, in fact, part of the Russian army - but there are also units fighting that are not directly subordinated to the Russian Ministry of Defence. These are the internal troops of the LDPR, various special forces - there are quite a few of them and they are not badly trained. But because of different departmental affiliation there are frictions, when the curators of the "alternative army" do not agree with the army's approaches and hold their ground, and the army squeezes resources in retaliation - our battalion, for example, has not received supplies from the army for more than three weeks and lives only on reserves.

Of course, one could say that we should put everyone under one command—and the problem is over—but no: the army's approaches are often so specific that there is little desire to pile everyone into one fire and burn it down.

We circumvented the difficulties caused by overhead differences by strengthening horizontal ties on the ground, and it worked - but not always, unfortunately. The "alternative army" - let me call it that - retained its human resource, although the intensity of its "exploitation" was very high - just a different approach. Some army brigades have fewer storm troopers than our battalion - but they have equipment and artillery which is used at seven percent efficiency, but which they stubbornly refuse to share.

Now we are receiving information that the enemy is preparing a strike fist on the Ugledar direction and intends to launch an offensive in the direction of Vladimirovka-Sladkoye. It will happen soon—the enemy has been inspired by recent events. How will we meet it? Will the army change its approach and make every effort to prevent the enemy from achieving another success? I, with my three mortars and the rest of the ammo will certainly give battle....

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE RUSSIAN GENERALS FUCK UP ON KHARKOV - NEW UKROP ATTACKS IN KHERSON AND ON THE DONETSK FRONT. THE UKROP ATTACKS ON PESKY AND AVDEEVKA ARE CONFIRMED BY MY FRIENDS THERE ON THE GROUND. FUCK.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Encouraged by the news from the Kharkov front, the Ukrainian swine community tried to rock the boat in other areas and raked almost simultaneously near Kherson, Avdiivka and Pesky.